Sonic's p.o.v.
I finally sneaked into their base! It was a hassle just to find it but without inserting the 'password' I had to find an alternative entrance. I have to be grateful for my quills that can cut through metal otherwise finding and/or making an entrance would be very tedious. I crept through the halls silently checking each room by opening it slightly. But one door I opened had a certain pinkett laying on a bed with her back facing me. I glared at her and was about to close the door and carry on with finding that emerald. I need that last Chaos Emerald! Buuut... Why just go after it randomly when I can kill two birds with one stone? Hehehe~ I creeped into the room able to hear the little pink bitch let out a depressed sigh. Poor helpless rose, too bad you're about to wilt. I slowly closed the door behind me making it let out a small 'click'. Her ears perked in response to the noise. She rolled around and sat up to face me. As soon as her eyes met mine, her's widened beyond comparison and opened her mouth to scream. I zipped straight up to her side and covered it. I understand that my appearance startled her but there's no need for her tacky voice to make my presence known to everyone.
"Calm down Amy. I'm not going to harm you." I cooed to her. This is utterly disgusting. When I'm done, I'm going to burn my body just to get rid of her stench. "All I'm here for, is you." I watched as confusion filled her eyes. I can just picture her thoughts right now. What do I mean by her? What am I going to do? I can also see fear deep in her eyes. That look is so satisfying. "I have made a mistake Amy. Only you can help me now. Everyone else would rather kill me then hear me out." I allowed my voice to be filled with sorrow and eyes shining with regret. And that result got me the bitch looking at me with sympathy. She knew what I was talking about. Perfect. "I'm going to let you go now. You can scream if you want but then I wouldn't be able to fix my mistake." I pulled my hand away from her. As soon as I did however, I wasn't prepared as she tackled me in a hug. But it wasn't her signature bone-crushing one. It was oddly comforting. Too bad that won't make me change my mind.
"Oh Sonikku." I heard her say. "I'm not going to do that." She pulled away and I could see tears in her eyes. Just to make sure she was still in my grasp, I closed my eyes, my ears fell, hung my head and let a tear escape. I could feel her slightly caress my cheek. "I can help you. Just tell me what needs to be done and I can help you fix your mistake." I opened my eyes to see her giving me a small smile. For extra effect, I beamed widely and hugged happily.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I knew I could count on you Ames!" She hugged me back tighter but not too tight.
"Always Sonikku. I will never give up on you. Even when the others say you should be killed, I knew you would come back to your senses." How about some more heartfelt heartache?
"I've always loved you Ames. You were always right when I was too shy to say it back." I heard her gasp and she quickly pulled away to look at me with wide eyes and partially opened mouth. But then she gave a wide smile and squealed.
"I love you too Sonikku! This is like a dream come true!" She was about to move closer when I did first. I gave a quick peck to her lips leaving her red in the face.
"I know." I whispered as I looked at her full of lust. "If you want this to continue then I need you to bring me the last Chaos Emerald; Shadow's Emerald to fix my mistake."
"O-O-Oh... Okay..." She whispered and pulled away, shaking her head. She then gave her signature smile. "Don't you worry Sonic! I'll be right back!" She then jumped to her feet and hissed while clutching her middle. I could see the whole extent of her wound. Giving a chuckle, I approached her and unwrapped the wound. She looked at me confused at what I was doing. "Sonic?" Once her wound was in sight I took off one of my gloves and hovered my watery hand over her. Lightly brushing the hurt area I used my own energy to heal her. The process was over just as fast as it began. She was speechless through the entire thing. As I was putting my glove back on, she was poking the spot where her wound once was. "How?" I heard her say and I chuckled at that. Looking back at her, I found some clean gauze and wrapped it around the open spot of her dress.
"That was not even a fraction of my power. I can do a multitude of different things if I had my full power though." I made sure the gauze was tight enough so it wouldn't randomly come undone. "There. That should hold until you have time to fix that hole in your dress." I put the rest of the gauze down and smiled at her. She blinked then returned a smile. She giggled, pecked my cheek and ran to the door opening it up.
"You can count on me Sonic! Just stay here. I'll be right back!" And with that, she took off down the hall leaving the door wide open.
Once I made sure she wasn't coming back, I took the gauze and rubbed my tongue on it. I need to get the taste of pink bitch off it. My ears perked up as I heard footsteps coming this way. I smirked at what I would do next. Taking my glove off, I jumped out of the room just as a male Mobian guard stopped in front of me. He didn't even have time to scream as I slashed his head off with my transformed spear-hand. My hand then changed to something similar to the head of a spatula and I licked all the blood off. Sure I have the metallic taste blood is known to have but at least I don't taste Amy anymore. And she tastes like shit!
"I wonder... Is my little bird dead as a doorknob yet?" I wondered out loud. Surely she has to at least be in the same room as Shadow now. Curious, I took off after and soon I came to a room with voices coming from it.
"Sonic needs that emerald Knuckles. He can fix everything!" Obviously that bitch.
"Sonic!?" Silver now. "Why are you still set on him! We already told you that he doesn't love you Amy! He would rather kill you!"
"You're wrong Silver! He did tell me he loves me and that he made a horrible mistake and if I get this emerald for him then everything will be fixed!" All was silent until I heard Knuckles speak up.
"When did he tell you this Amy?" So he's suspicious. Eh, can't blame him. Amy has never left their sight.
"A few minutes ago." I heard a sharp intake of breath and some rushed running. It's time.
"Well... I would love to stay and chat but I have an emerald I need to collect." I said as I walked into the room and placed my hands on my hips giving them all my signature smirk. They all looked at me with wide eyes and I could see what trouble Amy had gotten herself into. There was a noticeable Shadow-shaped dent in the wall and a giant hammer in her hands. She used force. I took my gloves off and placed them into my quills.
"Now, I'll give you two choices. Give me that emerald and you all will still have your lives. If not," my hands both changed into two long spearheads. "Then I will force you to hand them over." Blaze growled as she stepped forward albeit with a slight limp. Her body changed and at that moment I knew I was looking at Iblis.
"Never will we ever listen to you Havoc." She spat and I chuckled. She wants to play? Let's play. I crossed my arms in an 'x' formation and allowed my 'form' to drop. Now standing in front of them was the partially true me. The 'partial' being how my full power has yet to be restored. Heh, this is about to get interesting.
Shadow's p.o.v. (Before what happened above.)
My eyes were wide as Vanilla had finished her tale. But the whole reason why I was shocked is the 2 days part. How in the name of hell did I sleep for 2 days and not have healed!? My connection with Chaos Energy mixed with my alien D.N.A should have healed me fully in the matter of hours with how extreme I was pushing myself. Unless... Unless Sonic had something to do with it... Everything does seem to be coming from him after all. All of our problems started with him, but I can't really let him take all of the blame. All of us did kinda take the toll and dived into something that we shouldn't have at all. Curiosity really does kill the cat...
"Shadow?" My attention was snapped back to reality at Vanilla's call. I looked over at her to see her standing up. "Are you coming or do you need more rest?" I shook my head and swung my feet to help me sit up.
"I had enough of bed. I need to stretch my legs."
Vanilla smiled and helped me get situated on my feet. "I'm glad you want to help just don't go pushing yourself to your limits."
"I won't." I said as I grabbed the emerald and followed her towards the 'Command Center'. Or at least that's what she said. The room looked like any other. Incredibly small and looks more like a jail cell with a few trinkets then a room. As I made myself known, the ever present Mobians looked at me with a mixture of relief and worry. Why? I don't know.
"Shadow, we're so glad you're okay!" Silver called out as I came closer.
"Why wouldn't I be? Sure I'm not healing properly but at least I'm still here." They all looked at eachother worried when I said that. What was going on?
"Shadow." I looked at Rouge who walked up to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. "You're not healing?" I shook my head and she looked over at Knuckles. He sighed then crossed his arms over his chest while looking down.
"This isn't good..."
"What is going on?" I voiced my opinion because this was getting annoying. What are they not telling me? "Tell me what's happening!"
"Easy Shadow." Blaze spoke up as she stood up but I could see she was putting more weight on one foot more than the other. Did she hurt her foot when I wasn't awake? "It's best if you calm down first."
"Why?"
She sighed. "Because Excalibur was here." I blinked. Excalibur? That weak knight we have- or more like Tails has defeated? Why would they worry about Excalibur? Rouge must've seen my confused face because she sighed and gripped my shoulder getting my attention.
"Excalibur almost killed Amy, Knuckles and Silver." My eyes flew open wide at that. The hell!? Excalibur wasn't that powerful when Tails fought against him in Sonic's mind. What the hell happened!? Rouge continued because I clearly wanted to yell right about now but she didn't want that. "If it wasn't for Tikal, Iblis and Blaze we would have been dead right about now."
I shook my head still not beileveing how a weak little being like Excalibur could've done so much damage. Did they all lie about how powerful they all were? Then... Oh hell no...
"Worst of all, Excalibur had retreated and now someone more powerful is coming here." I froze up at that. What are the odds of me being in a very weak state that someone more powerful than Excalibur who by the looks of it, had almost succeeded, would come now? I'll tell you. Someone must've planned this. And he's the mastermind behind it all! I looked over at the voice who said those words. She was an echidna like Knuckles but was an orange colour. And she also had an ethereal glow around her. She saw me looking at her and smiled at me. "Hello Shadow. We haven't met yet but I have heard a lot about you. My name is Tikal."
"Tikal?" I didn't know there were other echidna's. I thought Knuckles was the last one...
"Tikal, you said you had answers for us?" Blaze asked and the girl echidna nodded.
"Yes. I'm sure you are all aware that Sonic has gone rogue."
"Rogue wouldn't be the correct word for all of this." Knuckles muttered and Tikal smiled.
"Actually, it would be." Tikal merely smiled and looked at each of us in the eyes. "Sonic wasn't even Sonic before. His name was Havoc. And Havoc made a promise years ago. Seems like he has broken that promise." Her face turned stern as she narrowed her eyes. "Havoc wouldn't be out to kill any of you if you left him alone."
Knuckles scoffed. "And what would you say Tikal? That we never figure out his past? That we just let the fact we know barely anything about Sonic or Havoc or whatever his name is!"
"Havoc. And yes." Tikal stated that as if it was final.
"I think I regret doing this..." I heard Silver mutter and Blaze nodded.
"I agree. Sure we may be finding out more about Sonic, but this wasn't worth it all."
"I also agree darling." I looked over at Rouge to see her serious expression. "Big Blue deserves privacy just as much as we do. I guess we were blind to realize that."
I took a few moments to let their words in as I looked over at Tikal and Knuckles. I guess it was our fault after all... I sighed. "Okay. Yes. I agree that this may have been our fault. But now that this has happened, what do you expect us to do?"
"I don't expect you to come up with a plan right away. But this information I'm about to tell you may come in handy later on if you do get this cleared up." She looked over at Knuckles who sighed.
"And what is this information Tikal?" He asked in a bored voice and Tikal nodded.
"I'm glad you asked." Her face then got stern again. "Sonic's brothers are all puppets. They were only ever born as beings to follow Sonic's every command and desire. In their own minds they can hear Sonic's thoughts and if something is thought, they can store it away for later to bring it back up." She then looked directly at me. "I'm sure you remember your race with Exe?"
"Yes. I do." How does she know that?
"Then you'll also remember how his actions flipped like a switch. How he went from only racing to possibly trying to kill you." She then smiled before I could answer my question. "Iblis had told me. Even if she wasn't awake at the time, she could still she everything Blaze she's." She sighed and looked over at Blaze. "If I was here sooner when this all happened, I may have cleared it all up sooner and put Sonic's rage on hold. But now that his original plan has come back to his mind, it's going to be even harder to destroy Sonic."
"Destroy?" Silver asked the question on all of our minds.
"Yes, destroy. No one has found an absolute way to destroy Havoc. All that can be achieved is destroying his physical body. Once his physical body is destroyed, he'll turn into what his brothers once were. Spirits that need a host to get their energy from. But in order for Sonic to come in such a state, you need to drain him of his energy. Once his energy is drained to the point he can barely stand up, destroy his brothers." She then pointed directly at the Chaos Emerald in my hand. "Destroy the emeralds."
"Destroy!?" We all asked at the same time. Why would the emeralds need to be destroyed? Can the emeralds even be destroyed?
Tikal sighed and then continued. "Yes. I said destroy. Sonic's brothers are getting their energy from two sources. Sonic himself and the emeralds. If Sonic is drained of his energy, there wouldn't be any energy to give out. He would instead start taking energy in from his brothers to satisfy his own need of energy. This is where destroying the emeralds becomes crucial. With the brothers giving their own energy over they also need energy to sustain themselves. They would start getting energy from the emeralds. If the emeralds are destroyed before Sonic gets enough energy to fight, his brothers would die from the lack of energy leaving Sonic with barely anything. This would also make him weak and barely to survive. He wouldn't be able to fight back and destroying Sonic's body would become easier."
"Um... Excuse me Tikal but what about Mobius?" Silver asked with a frown and continued. "The story we read said that the emeralds were created to sustain Mobius. What would happen if the emeralds were destroyed?" She sighed and looked away with a distant look.
"Mobius would start to implode on itself. When enough of the planet had fallen, it would explode effectively killing off anything that would still be on the surface."
We were all quiet as we took in her words. So let me get this straight. We are now in a crisis where destroying the whole planet is now so important to kill off what I once thought was a happy-go-lucky, cocky hedgehog and it's all our faults!? What the absolute hell!? I realized just how much I was thinking it over as I didn't see a giant hammer aimed at me. I was snapped out of my thoughts as I was smashed into the wall so hard, that a dent in my shape was made. I was a little dizzy as I got my eyesight back and could see the pink bitch herself standing there with a determined look.
"What the hell Amy!?" Knuckles yelled as Rouge helped me off the wall.
"Give me that emerald Knuckles. Everything can be fixed!"
"What are you talking about!? Fix!? We already have a plan to fix everything!"
She shook her head as she looked at all of us. "You don't understand! Sonic needs that emerald Knuckles. He can fix everything!"
"Sonic!?" Silver yelled in disbelief. "Why are you still set on him! We already told you that he doesn't love you Amy! He would rather kill you!"
"You're wrong Silver!" She shook her head then looked at us determined. He did tell me he loves me and that he made a horrible mistake and if I get this emerald for him, then everything will be fixed!" If I didn't know better, I thought I heard a record scratch.
Knuckles then spoke up as he looked at Amy suspiciously. Can't blame him. So am I.
"When did he tell you this Amy?"
"A few minutes ago." We all gasped at that. Sonic... Was in this building!? Oh hell no!
We then heard someone walk in behind Amy as HE had a smirk on his face with his hands on his hips. "Well... I would love to stay and chat but I have an emerald I need to collect." I'm sure all of our eyes were wide as he took off his gloves to reveal the same hands he fought me with back in his mind. HE then decided to continue as he looked at each of us. "Now, I'll give you two choices. Give me that emerald and you all will still have your lives. If not," both of his hands changed into two long spearheads as his smirk turned devious. "Then I will force you to hand them over." Something I never thought I would hear is a cat growling as Blaze stepped forward with a slight limp. One of her ankles must really be sore. She then changed with a swirl of fire around her to reveal her but with a different look. As if I was looking at a different cat altogether.
"Never will we ever listen to you Havoc." She spat at him in a stern voice. Her voice sounded slightly different as if someone else was talking. I guess someone else is with the way her appearance looked.
HE chuckled as he crossed his arms over his chest. He then changed right before our very eyes. He grew about two feet as the water on his hands enveloped all of his arm making the spearheads look like actual spears embedded on his arms. He gave one last chuckle as he got in a fighting stance. This isn't going to end well...